Friday, April 5, 2013

Thank you Corporal Justin Rogers: Serving and Protecting Even While Off-duty

TSA would like to thank
Corporal Justin Rogers for his selfless
and speedy actions on behalf of one of our officers at Honolulu International
Airport.

On March 30th,
2013, Cpl. Rogers was off-duty, traveling home to California from a family
vacation in Honolulu, and
as he prepared for screening at the checkpoint (no shoes!) he saw a TSA Officer
being assaulted by a woman attempting to enter a secure area,
which the officer was tasked to guard. Just like a scene from all-time favorite
reality TV show, “Cops,” he leapt into action immediately, breaking the TSA
Officer free of the woman’s headlock and restraining her until airport police
arrived. You can see this off-duty officer in action by watching the video above. For full viewing effect, I suggest watching it with this theme song.

Thank you Cpl. Justin
Rogers, for your heroic actions and your continued service.

Wow, what a hero this cop is NOT. What the video shows is how TSA fails to allow its own screeners to defend themselves [so this one is hesitating] then, wannabe hero cop over reacts with way too much force, considering he felt body slamming an old much smaller sized mentally ill homeless lady...is somehow OK and more appropriate use of his much larger more muscular self.

Looks like some serious deep down unresolved anger management issues there bud!!!

To Anonymous, Wow,What a Hero he is!!!!Its amazing how you knew this person that was attacking a officer was a old much smaller sized mentally ill homeless lady. Did you know her or something? This Officer is a hero to the public. Not the lady that tryed to attack a female officer. I dont care who she was, he did what needed to be done, and thats get her off the security officer and away from the checkpoint so she could not get through. SO good Job Officer.

It is too bad the TSA workers co-workers stood by and watched this take place and an innocent by-stander had to jump in and "take charge" while the other TSO's stood around and watched - Sorry! And too much force, I do not think so, in law enforcement you use whatever force is necessary to neutralize the threat. She was quickly neutralized before she had time to react - OUTSTANDING job by the off duty cop! Really bad job by the other TSO's "w3atching"

"he saw a TSA Officer being assaulted by a woman attempting to enter a secure area..." - I wonder how many times a day he saw a woman attempting to enter a secure area being assaulted by a TSA Officer and did nothing.

Anonymous said..."What I saw was a off-duty policeman who had been uselessly removed of his shoes have to act because a whole bunch of TSO did not respond at all."

I saw the exact same thing... Pretty sure he violated TSA procedures in the process, too. Did he get re-screened afterwards? If not, why not? The lady could have handed something to him while she was being held down ;)

Thank you Corporal Justin Rogers for stepping in and helping! Bravo!Sham on you with your nasty comments. What if the TSO was your mother, sister or daughter. No one should put hands on anyone in a abusive manner.I am sorry if this woman was mentally ill but that is no reason for her to attack someone else for doing their job!

I really enjoy watching this. Often TSA officers are just undermined. People do not understand and appreciate the importance and the strain of their work. This TSA officer woman could have been hurt in a matter of seconds. Lots of crazy people outthere. I am glad to see she is okay. How about Krav maga classes for TSA employees.

My family does not believe in betraying their country, so no member would be employed by an agency that has such a blatant disregard for our Constitutional rights.

"No one should put hands on anyone in a abusive manner"

You're right. Which is why the pat-downs, which would cross the boundry to sexual assault in any other context, need to stop.

Another Anonymous said...

"This only shows the need for TSA personnel to be armed. No telling what would have happened were the policeman not there"

Neither a high-school diploma nor a GED is a job requirement, and TSA has put their employees to work without their background checks being complete, and you're advocating arming them?!? You CAN'T be serious!!!

Great Job By the CPl! Made every TSA agent look silly! Maybe they need to raise their standards? It appears they were lucky the CPL. was there. I would bet that the TSA agent would have been hurt pretty badly.